Apparatus for attaching hooks and eyes to tape, &amp;c.



W. M. GORTHBLL. APPARATUS POI. 110mm BOOKS AND EYES T0 TAPE, 6:0.

APPLIOATXON TILED PRO. .1907,

Patsfited Sept 15, 1908.

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WILLIAM M. CORTIIlZ-LL, OI CII ICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGA' OR TO l M. \YATEPJIAX, OF CHICAGO ILLINOIS.

-APPARA1JS FOR ATTACEING HOOKS AND EYE: TO TAPE &C-

Specification of Letters Patsr.,;- 2 Patent-l3 Sept. 15, 1908.

Application filed me bers 196%." sfiai No. QOSAYS.

To all whom it may concern:

"Be it known that I, WiLLiAM llLCon'rnELL, i edges of lugs 5 are arcs of the circle constia resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented'certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Attaching Hooks and Eyes to Tape, &c.;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such in ill enable others skilledin the art to which} pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to in'iproved apparatus for attaching hooks and eyes to tape, ribbon, or the like, for market.

The main object of the invention is to provide simple, and convenient means for delivering hooks and eyes to a sewing machine and to a tape or ribbon to which they are to be sewed.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly pointed out.

In the accompa nyiug drawings which illustratc-the=improvpment and form a art of this specificatio1n-Figure 1 is a partial side View of a sewing machine, with the hook and eye holder attached Fig. 2 is a similar view at right angles to Fig. 1, certain arts being broken away; Fig. 3 is an enlarge view looking at the free end of several spring arms, with a hook and eye in place between one air of arms; Fig. is an edge View of the .1 00k and eye holding ends of a pair of opposite spring arms Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the same; Fig, 6 is an enlarged side view of the hook and eye holder, its axis bearing being-in section; Fig. 7 is a partial side view showing a modification; Fig. 8 is an end view thereof; and Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a guard.

Numeral 1 denotes a rotary hook and eye carrier or holder. adapted to receive and temporarily retain engaged hooks and eyes in pairs, and to present and hold the loops thereof successively under the needles of a sewing machine for securing them to a tape or ribbon for sale.

The holder comprises two circular bodies having a series of parallel or nearly parallel spring arms 2, 3, the arms of one series being opposite those of the other series, whercbv the arms are in pairs. Said arms are radial, but preferably increase in width toward their outer ends'to rovide space for hook and eye receiving note res 4, and lugs 5 at the ends of -vance it, as hereafter described.

Straight across the outer ends of arms 2, '3 on the outside are retaining grooves 8. In Figs. 2 and 6 where edge views or these disks appear the grooved parts are omitted for convenience of illustration.

Preferably sheet metal disks by stamping and forming are made into the shape shown and described, and are. thennsnitahly tempered. v At, thecenterihendisks have openings at: :pted to fit onto a hub 9 which has a bearing in a bracket 10 secured to the bed plate 1] of the sewim machineand arranged to extend between die disks 2, 3 at proper height, and said disks being situated between sewing machine needles 13 carried by a needle bar which terminates in a bifurcated needle holder adapted to straddle the rotary holder in action.

On the top of the bracket is a spring 12 the forward end of which bears on the top of hub 9 so that the latter may rise under undue l such notches. ,It-will beseen that the outer strain, and whcrcbv the holder may be removed when desire Mounted on the base of the bracket, or otherwise, is a bar or spring 14 extendin be tween the disks near the bed plate an behind the needles. a

15 denotes the ordinary reciprocating feed shaft of a sewingmach'ne ofthe Singer type, connected by a crank to the feeding plate 6, the latter having a yielding spring 16 between which and the body of the plate is an eccentric pin on a rotary shaft 17 to give an up and down movement to the plate 6.

The tape or ribbon 7 is carried on a reel,

passes up through the bed plate, under the iolder and the needles, and again below the bed plate which is suitablyslott-ed.

In practice an operator at the front of the machine places an e aged hook and eye in opposite notches 4 o a pair of arms 2, 3, springing th arms toward each other slightly for the pur ose. As shown in Fig. 3 the 111- 1 sides 0 the loops of the hook 18 and the eye 19 nter grooves 8 and therefore the hooks and eyes will not fall ofi while passing tromthe position wherethcy are put in (say at the position of the arrow in Fig. l) to the osition below the needles. After placing a. .ook and eye in the holder the operator mo- 5 mcntnrily starts the sewing machine in usual or suitable manner and sews the hook and eye loops below the needles to the tape, at the some time the next arms ol the holder come to position to be filled, and the machine is or may be topped for placing the next hook and e) e m the holder. Just otter passing the needles the hook lastsewcd is carried by the feed of the holder against the under side of spring H whereby the hook on d attached eye are forced from the holder arms.

The described apparatus is primarily intended for securing hooks and eyes to tape or ribbon, but is also adopted for securing thlem to cards. I n this case the ribbon supplv reel 30 would not be 'used, but curds would be successively introduced by hand or otherwise between the feed device 6 and the holder, or holders, in case more than one is used, and would then be fedjulong by the undcr feed 6 as described for the tape.

When the machine is intended for cards, or for wide tape, a. plurality of holders, instead of one only, may be mounted side by side, and the sewing machine furnished with two needles for each holder so that more than one row of hooks and eves may be simultaneously sewed on. In such a. case it would also be desirable to employ several of the feed plates or other feed devices.

In Figs. 7 and 8 the modified rotary holder comprises two parallel rigid metal disks or circular bodies 2 3 with a hub resting in hearings in brackets 10, and to springs 12. The disk-bodies are shoulders around the periphery on the outside at 23, 24, the

shoulder 23 on the hook engaging side being of less distance from the periphery, than the shoulder 24 on the eve side. The edges are notched at 4 4 to the respective shoulders.

5 This holder is supported bet-ween needles as before described. Two of these holders are shown in Fig. 8 each with a. separate ribbon 7.

25 denotes a. guide extending from above the center of the forward side of the holders to a point just in advance of the needles.

The lower end is notched at 26 to give space for passage of the ribbon or ribbons or cards.

Evidently itis not ncccssary't-hut the holders have one common guide. The guide is sup- 5 ported by-a'bracket 27, and at its lower end rests on the bed plate. The central lug between notches 26 is not essential. The guide .-is concentric with the holder and close to its periphery and serves to hold engaged hooks and'eyes which are laid bottom side up in notches 4 above the guide in place until they are brought by movementof the holders 'undcr the needles and are ready to be sewed on.

28, 29 denote feed rolls with rubber, felt or likosurfaces between which tapes 'Z-pass and by which they are drawn along step by step from the supply reel, at the same time turning the liolder, 'or holders when more than one is used, which bears on the tape.

51:31 is a ratchet wheel engaged by a pawl 32 operated from the usual reciprocating feed shaft l5. The parts are so made that the holders advance the distance between successive loops at each reciprocation of the sewing machine needles.

Evidently an underfeed device 6, one or more of them, may be used with this form of holder, either as a. substitute for the feed rolls, or in addition thereto. \Vhen cards are used instead of tape the under feed is so preferable.

The invention is not limited to the par-- ticulur feed devices described, nor to use of a. sewing m uchinc of any particular type. The holders are adapted for hooks and eyes of difi'ercnt forms (the notches etc. being of form and dimensions to correspond), but I have shown in Fig. 3 a hook 18 and eye 19 of novel form cspecially'suited for the holders and for machine sewing. In these the loo s instead of being round are epproximatoy square, though a. little distorted by the spread of the inner sides. This form provides straight loop-sides 20 to fit grooves 8, or to bear on shoulders 23, 24, and has other advantages.

Having described the invention what I claim is,

1. In an apparatus for attaching hooks and eyes, the combination with a. sewing mechanism comprising. needles, of a rotary circular holder with means at the periphery of the holder for holding cnga ed hooks and eyes, and means to rotate the holder step by step to carry the hooks andeycs under the needles.

i 2. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination Zwith a. sewing mechanism comprisin needles, and means for feeding ribbon or t to like, of a. vertically yielding rotary holder between said needles and adapted to carry hooks and eyes under said needles.

3. In an apparetus of the character described, a sewing mechanism comprising suitably o erated needles, and means for feeding rib on or the like, a support for the ribbon whereby the latter may pass from said support to the said feeding means and below the needles, and a rotary hook and eye holder between the needles and having a. tuned movement in relation thereto.

4. A rotary holder for hooks and eyes, a bearing for the axle of the holder, a spring bearing on said axle, and a. feeding device for the holder.

5. A holder for hooks and eyes comprisin circular substantially parallel bodies, an means for securing engaged hooks and eyes thereto at the periphery, a. support on which the holder can rotate, and means for advanc-- ing the holder step by step whereby the hooks and eyes are carried to and held in position for sewing to a ta- )6 or the like.

6. A holder for hooks and eyes comprising substantially parallel disks divided to form arms, and means at the outer ends for securing engaged hooks and eyes thereto whereby the may he held in position to be sewed to a suitable body.

7. A holder for hooks and eyes comprising circular substantially parallel rotary bodies comprising several arms notched and grooved at their outer ends and adapted to hold hooks and eyes in position to be sewed to a tape or equivalent.

S. The combination with needles of a sewin; merhanism, of a rotary holder for hooks and eyes. means for securing hooks and eyes thereto, and means operating after the hooks and eyes pass the needles to remove the hooks and eyes from the holder.

9. In an apparatus of the character described, sewing mechanism comprising needles and a feed shaft, a rotary' holder between the needles, means torsecuring hooks and eyes at intervals thereornaml feeding means fora body to which the hooks and eyes are to be sewed having a definite movement in relation to the needles whereby the hooks and eyes ere advanced step by step and sewed on. 10. In a holder for engaged hooks and eyes, series of spring arms in pairs and having hook and eye holding means at their outer ends, said holding moans forming two opposed circular series wherein engaged hooks and eyes may he he d by the tension of said arms, means for supporting the holder and for lullttlllg it. step by step \vl ierehy sin-h hooks and eyes may he carried and held in position to be sewed to a. suitable support. In testimony hereof, l have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribmg witnesses.

\YILlilAM 3i. (FOli'lllEliL. Witnesses:

II. L. FRANC, 

